Thanks for the replies. I'm surprised there aren't more people around with this distasteful experience. . .maybe some that haven't taken a peek in here.

Today before you guys get to this topic I had one of those "Duh!" moments, where you smack yourself in the face, and called my city's bar association. I got 2 referrals. The referral service asked specifically what I needed ("Malpractice" "What kind?" "Medical" Is there actually some other kind of malpractice?)

I called and talked to the first guy for a while. I did not like him. He did not seem to be taking my injury particularly seriously and wasn't interested in the fact that the malpractice in the hospital and the follow-up care provided is responsible additional problems requiring god only knows how much surgical intervention. . .

I was pretty ticked off at this guy. He implied that my case didn't involve shortening of life or loss of capacity to work. Something like that. Well, I can't put on a freaking shoe! I'm not going to be strolling by sniffing the daisies much.

I don't think I'm going to have him represent me.

I called the second number I got as well. . . It seems that the second attorney was out of the office this afternoon, but his voicemail sounded friendly.

I know that "the other side" is going to try to discredit me any way that they can, I'll expect that. But when I'm shopping around for a lawyer, I don't think think it's fair for him or her to treat me like a vacuum bag of dog stuff.

It seems to me like the lawyer I spoke with today made it pretty clear that he did not want to be My Lawyer.

Here's to hoping the next one won't suck. . .

Thanks for your support, guys!